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Post by dem bones on Jan 19, 2020 15:33:33 GMT
Brian McConnell - The Possessed: True Tales Of Demonic Possession (Headline 1995). Health Warning Introduction
Bad Luck Of The Devil Calling Old Nick Names Witch Hunt To Possess A Nun Selling Your Soul Phoney Exorcists Sex-Scandals of The Demonised Twentieth-Century Devilment Crowley: Satan's Living 'Beast' Devilish Murder Hollywood Goes To Hell Exorcised To Death Everyday Possession Satan And The Student Vampire Hunt The Vampire Nailed Raising Money For The Devil Moon Killer Serial Killers In The USA Satanised Son Of Sam Mass Murderer Of Muswell Hill Satan's Lovers Of The Moon The Exorcist Speaks Reading Stars, Seeing Spirits Satanic Child Abuse The Twenty-One Faces Of Sarah The Possessed Priest Deliverance Not Exorcism
IndexBlurb A Yorkshire father o five came out of an all-night exorcism and choked his wife to death with his bare hands. A pretty university student died from starvation while undergoing a seven-month—long exorcism. A sixteen-year-old convent schoolgirl confessed to her priest that she had entered into a contract and sold her soul to the Devil. A priest who carried out mass exorcisms twice weekly exorcised his wife and his mistress's husband — then killed them with poison disguised as medicine. The churches are shying away from Biblical exorcisms and settling for less flamboyant ceremonies. Meanwhile, the possessed flourish as serial killers, as satanic ritual child abusers who use altar chalices to drink infants‘ blood and as doomsday cultists who lead their followers to mass suicides. In this compelling study Brian McConnell sheds new light on this most taboo of subjectsDug this out last night for chapter on Satanic Child Abuse in which McConnell (or whoever: see below) concentrates primarily on the Rochdale and Orkney cases. As with John Parker, the author sees the catalyst for the hysteria in Britain as the 'Not One More Child' Conference at Reading University in September 1989, when two American Satanic Abuse 'experts,' Detective Robert 'Jerry' Simandl and soon-to-be discredited 'ritual abuse' councillor, Ms Pamela Klein, were invited to address an audience of social workers, along with various guest speakers on behalf of what was to become the 'Evangelical Alliance.' Things would shortly spiral out of control. Should you plan to locate a copy, be warned. Chapter begins with a truly nauseating "what about the poor babies?" outburst from Esther Ranzen. Also found an old anti-review from Vault MK I.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 28, 2020 18:44:08 GMT
Sidney Stanley The Willows & Other Queer Tales, (Collins, n.d. circa 1920s [?]) Back with The Satanists, and The Ghost-man's powerful novella. Algernon Blackwood - Ancient Sorceries: ( John Silence, Physician Extraordinary, 1908). "Anoint and away! Anoint and away! To the dance that never dies! To the sweet and fearful fantasy of evil!"Wonderful and frightening adventure of Arthur Vezin, 45, a man who prides himself on his insignificance, as he journeys by train through Northern France. The carriage is stifling, his fellow passengers so loud that a flustered Arthur debouches at a lonely hillside town in the shadow of a cathedral, puts up at the hotel. Arthur falls madly in lust with Mademoiselle Ilsé, the landlady's seductive seventeen-year-old daughter, after brushing against her in the dark (this before he has even had a good look at her). She is not backward in letting him know that the attraction is mutual. Vezin is truly bewitched - and fearful. After five days, he realises that it is beyond him to leave. There is something feline about, not just Ilsé, but her people, also. It is as though they are putting on a performance of going about daily mundane business for his benefit, but their lives only truly begin after nightfall. Ilsé takes Arthur on a tour of the town, pointing out the ancient market place "where witches had been burnt by the score." It transpires that she is terrified of fire. Arthur pours out his heart. Ilsé is delighted. Now they will consummate their love at the Witches' Sabbath where he will again join the Cat People in Satanic worship, just as he did in the old days, before the cult were rounded up and put to the flame ... Sidney Stanley
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Apr 25, 2020 18:37:58 GMT
Coincidentally, I recently finished Grady Hendrix's My Best Friend's Exorcism, which is set in the 1980s and draws heavily from the Satanic Panic. It's a fun novel; I liked it enough to order his follow-up, We Sold Our Souls (I gather he likes the theme). I'm happy to report that I enjoyed We Sold Our Souls as much as My Best Friend's Exorcism. Heavy metal fans will particularly appreciate the novel, which follows the washed-up guitarist for Dürt Würk as she discovers the sinister plot behind her band's collapse. On a personal level, I was pleased that the early parts of the story take place in eastern Pennsylvania (where my wife grew up) and eastern Kentucky (where I hail from).
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Post by andydecker on Apr 18, 2021 12:10:54 GMT
Here is a Haining from Germany, published in 1975. Its The Satanists. The Heyne Anthologien series from 1963 to 1979 came to 62 books which were mostly a early example of the tradepaperback format. Bookshops didn't like it much at the time, as the copies didn't fit in the regular paperback columns. Also seldom seen in this kind of book was that the text was in two columns on the page, like in the old American pulps. The cover art was that there was no cover art, only the title. 17 stories of this, 12 stories of that. Aside from horror there was crime, sf and a few western.
The edition is a bit unusual. While these books often were abridged for reasons of lengths, this was too short. So editorial put a few extra stories in which were not included in the Haining original.
The stories are:
Robert Louis Stevenson: Thrawn Janet Douglas Leach: The Devil of Maniara Francis Oscar Mann: The Devil in a Convent Lewis Spence: Lucifer over London Stephen Vincent Benet: The Devil and Daniel Webster Robert Bloch: A Question of Etiquette
I guess one could argue if all of them hit the topic.
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Post by helrunar on Apr 18, 2021 13:29:24 GMT
Interesting, Andreas. The format with the double columns sounds like instant eyestrain, and I get that the physical size of the books led to shelving and display issues for the shopkeepers. I wonder if they sold well.
cheers, Steve
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Post by andydecker on Apr 18, 2021 14:59:11 GMT
Interesting, Andreas. The format with the double columns sounds like instant eyestrain, and I get that the physical size of the books led to shelving and display issues for the shopkeepers. I wonder if they sold well. cheers, Steve I guess they sold well enough, as they were published for 16 years. But the last years were almost all original anthologies by German editors, aside from some Ellery Queen's or Alfred Hitchcock's material - which at the time was also done by some competitors. Today those have vanished all from the market, short stories are no longer read. But the later, original anthologies contained a lot of reprints, so costs were low and sales shrunk accordingly.
At the beginning the line was done very professionally, among those books were Ellison's Dangerous Visions and the first Lovecraft collection in Germany in 1965. But they didn't leave a big impression. That is to say Lovecraft in later years did, he is still in print, but how indifferent the Ellison was received is seen as tons of translated sf of this time was later re-issued in new editions and new, often better realized translations. But Dangerous Visions only got this one edition in 1970. So obviously the market didn't demand it.
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